23-year-old Olympic cyclist Kelly Catlin committed suicide last month. Apparently her despair stemmed from a concussion she suffered as well as from an obsessive drive for perfection that she had had since childhood.
As I read about her short life, ...
As the debate over socialism between President Trump and his Democratic presidential opponents heats up, we shouldn’t forget a socialist program that Trump and other conservatives have come to love — the school-voucher program.
Like other welfare-state programs, vouchers are ...
People who live in a society in which there are drug laws are living in an unfree society, no matter how much they believe otherwise. That’s because in a genuinely free society people have the right to ...
Ever since President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in the 1970s, advocates of this government program, both conservative and liberal, have argued that the only reason why the U.S. government has failed to win the drug ...
I grew up in Laredo, Texas, which is located on the Rio Grande, the border between the United States and Mexico. On the other side of the river was Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. The downtowns of both cities ...
Yesterday, the Washington Post carried a story about five Democratic presidential candidates who took to a stage in Iowa last Saturday to address an audience that was filled with farmers who are suffering severe economic and financial ...
Last week a Wall Street Journal editorial revealed the incorrigible hypocrisy with which conservatives have long suffered. Conservatives, of course, have long suffered this malady with respect to domestic policy given their ardent devotion to Social Security, ...
What the Pentagon and the CIA have done with their prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, reflects the concern of our American ancestors who demanded the enactment of the Bill of Rights immediately after the Constitution brought ...
Not surprisingly, the recent massacre in New Zealand has brought out the gun-control crowd, big time. It’s always so predictable. Rather than focus on the root causes of gun violence, such as the drug war, the perpetual ...
President Trump and his Trumpista supporters are making a big deal about Democrats being socialists. They say that if Democrats were to get their way, America would be turned into Venezuela.
What a joke! No, not the part about the ...